The Fifteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Storie
Contents
Introduction essay by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
1. The Man from Glasgow (1947) short story by W. Somerset Maugham
2. Master of Hounds (1979) short story by Peter A. Hough
3. The Dead Man of Varley Grange (1878) short story by Elizabeth Anna Hart
4. Christmas Entertainment (1979) short story by Daphne Froome
5. John Charrington's Wedding (1891) short story by E. Nesbit
6. The Primrose Connection (1979) short story by Margaret Chilvers Cooper
7. The Saving of a Soul (1893) short story by Sir Richard Francis Burton
8. No Living Man So Tall (1979) short story by Rosemary Timperley
9. The House by the Headland (1920) short story by Sapper
10. Drury Lane Ghost (1952) short story by W. MacQueen-Pope
11. The Night Walkers (1979) short story by Sydney J. Bounds
12. The Business of Madame Jahn (1896) short story by Vincent O'Sullivan
13. Here Today (1979) short story by James Fisher
14. White Christmas (1979) short story by David E. Rose
15. Only Child (1979) short story by Frances Stephens
16. The Bearer of the Message (1937) short story by Frits Hopman
17. The Herb Garden (1979) short story by Meg Buxton
18. The Hanging Tree (1979) short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
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R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes (a.k.a. Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes or R. Chetwynd-Hayes, 1919–2001) was an author, best known for his ghost stories. His first published work was the science fiction novel The Man From The Bomb in 1959. He went on to publish many collections and ten other novels including The Grange, The Haunted Grange, And Love Survived and The Curse of the Snake God. He also edited over 20 anthologies. Several of his short works were adapted into anthology style movies in the United Kingdom, including The Monster Club and From Beyond the Grave. Chetwynd-Hayes' book The Monster Club contains references to a film-maker called Vinke Rocnnor, an anagram of Kevin Connor, the director of From Beyond the Grave.
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
A series of twenty anthologies of ghost stories published from 1964 to 1984, the first eight edited by Robert Aickman and the remainder by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories consists of twenty books and considered as a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
